I. Read the following dialogues before answering the questions
Dialogue 1

Tom : Do you know where the nearest post office is?
Maria : Yes, I do.
Tom : Is it too far to walk?
Maria : No, it isn’t. Just walk along this street. Turn right at the intersection.
You can see the post office on your left.
Tom : How far is it from the intersection?
Maria : It is only 200 meters.
Tom : Thank you
Maria : You are welcome.

Dialogue 2

Sari : So, you want to come to my house?
Anton : Yes, I do.
Sari : It’s very far. It’s on the other side of the town
Anton : No, problem. Just tell me how to get there by public transport.
Sari : Okay. From here, walk across the street and take a bus number 15.
Anton : Then what?
Sari : Then get off in front of Horizon hotel.
Anton : Then?
Sari : Then cross the street and take another bus number 20 and get off at the intersection of Jl. Suci and Jl. Murni.
Anton : So, where is your house?
Sari : From the intersection, walk along Jl. Suci for about 300 meters. My house is on the left hand side opposite a computer college.
Anton : All right. Thank you.

Questions

1. Does Maria know where the post office is?
2. Does Maria show the direction of the post office?
3. How far is the post office from the intersection?
4. In what side is the post office?
5. How does Tom go to the post office?
6. Where does Sari live?
7. How does she go home?
8. How many times does she have to change the buses?
9. Does Anton want to go to Sari’s house?
10. How will Anton go to Sari’s house?

II. Change the following sentences into Yes/No questions and Wh-questions

1. Our classroom is on the second floor.
2. We have twenty-seven classmates.
3. They go to campus by bus.
4. The students have to finish their exercises soon.
5. We study at State Polytechnic of Bali.
6. Our classroom is very comfortable.
7. Tini is absent today because she is sick.
8. Mariani lives in Bukit Jimbaran near her campus.
9. Polytechnic students have to study at campus from 08:00 to 03:35 PM.
10. Mr. Tom teaches English at campus five days a week.

III. Combine two sentences below so that they form an embedded question

For example:

Where is the post office?
Can you tell me that?

Can you tell me where the post office is?

Do you study at State Polytechnic of Bali?
I want to know about it.

I want to know if (whether) you study at State Polytechnic of Bali or not.

1. How far is your house from here?
I don’t know that

2. How can I get to the University?
Please tell me that.

3. How much is the fare?
Why don’t you tell me that?

4. Where do I turn left?
Do you know that?

5. Is it too far to walk?
I wonder about it.

6. Where does he live?
Would you tell me that?

7. Do they go there by bus?
Can you tell me that?

8. Where is the bus stop?
I want to know that

9 What public transport can take me to the station?
Please tell me that

10.Does that bus go to the city?
I wonder about it.

IV. Write a description of the following three topics below

a). You are now a new student of State Polytechnic of Bali. Your teacher would like to know little bit about you. Please, tell your identity in about fifteen sentences or fifty words.

b). You are in the first semester now. It means you have more than twenty-five new classmates. Choose one of your classmates and describe him/her in about ten sentences (or forty words).

c). You are lucky enough to study in a new building of State Polytechnic of Bali. You have a new classroom too. Describe your classroom in at least fifteen sentences (or fifty words).

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Majid Wajdi is an English teacher of State Polytechnic of Bali. He has been teaching at his institution since November 1990 - present. He finished his undergraduate (S1) in 1989 at English Department, Faculty of Arts Udayana University. He completed his master degree (M.Pd) in language teaching at University of Education (Ganesha), Singaraja, Bali. He finished his Ph.D program at Linguistics Program, Post Graduate Program Udayana University. He is interested in sociolinguistics, sociopragmatics, discourse analysis, ethnography of speaking, language and power.